History Main / EverythingIsRacist

** In "The Cigar Store Indian", Jerry gives the titular object to Elaine as a gift while she is with a group of her friends, only to be informed afterwards that one of said friends (who he happened to have a crush on) was Native American. He still ends up getting a date with her, and on the date he constantly does things that make him look racist (like stopping himself from saying "Indian giver" and "scalper" and replacing them with awkward BuffySpeak alternatives at the last second). The final nail in his coffin happened when he was attempting to figure out directions to a nearby Chinese restaurant and asked a mailman who was bent down and collecting letters from a mailbox. The mailman then stands up and turns around, revealing himself to be a very offended Chinese man.

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' creator William M. Gaines wrote a satirical letter for publication in the magazine about expressions they needed to stop using because they might be seen as politically incorrect. One example: "In the black" - from now on it's "in the African-American" or else the NAACP will sue us!" One that involved further contortions of InsaneTrollLogic was that they couldn't use the word "homogenized" because "homo is a no-no." A later issue of ''MAD'', which listed all the things they hated about America, complained that nowadays [[GodwinsLaw there is apparently no argument ever held in the United States that doesn't eventually lead to someone making a "That's racist!" accusation]].

->'''Malcolm X''': Tell me something, Mother. Why is a game of pool not over until the ''black'' ball is knocked off the table?\\

--->'''Dr. Franklin''': [[IKnewIt I always suspected]].

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': In "P.C.", lesbian rights ([[InsistentTerminology no, not LGBT rights]], solely ''lesbian'' rights at first) activist Babs Duffy constantly accuses peoples of lesphobia, usually over trivial slights. However, she [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight turns out to be right]] that there really is a rapist targeting lesbians, who actually ''did'' commit a deliberate slight against her just so she'd be irked. Her militancy [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfires against Duffy]] after she comes out as being bisexual, which outrages her followers.

** Exploited by [[AlmightyJanitor the Janitor]] who, under the guise of asking for a crossword hint ("5 letters: Showing vulnerability; a 'blank' in one's armor") got JD to say "chink" before casually stepping back to reveal the Chinese Dr. Franklin.

--> '''Dr. Chase:''' "You seem pretty calm for a guy who's surrounded by racists."
--> '''Dr. Foreman:''' "80% of the Princeton population is white. Some are racist. Some aren't. White works with both demographics."
--> '''Dr. Chase:''' "So race is your excuse, not the fact that you usually look like you're about to punch someone in the face?"

* Jason Behr's character on the R-rated cable sitcom ''Sherman Oaks'' was '''constantly''' like this, even though he was also [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy quite white]].

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' had Music/RKelly get off from going to prison despite the galactic-sized, completely convincing, and absolute evidence that he did what he was on trial for, due to his (white) lawyer claiming that it was all just a big racist conspiracy to get a black man unfairly thrown in jail.

* In [[http://bigfootjustice.com/comic/flesh-color/ this]] strip from ''Webcomic/BigfootJustice'' crayons become a topic to rage over.

[[TheStinger You know]], this trope [[SelfDemonstratingArticle is actually pretty racist if you think about it...]]

* Willie in ''Series/HanginWithTheHomeboys'' blames every bad that happens to him on racism when in fact he's just lazy. A girl points this out and asks him if he's ever marched in a rally. Two of his own friends even point this out. First, Vinny who warns he'll end up an old, homeless, bum if he keeps blaming others for his own lack of trying. And Tom, who does so with a powerful TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* In ''Film/TheCube'', the protagonist is trapped in a white panelled room, with various weirdos coming in, saying or doing something to him and leaving again, each time telling him that he can’t leave through the door they came in through because it’s “their door”. Midway through the film, when he’s [[SanitySlippage starting to lose it]], a [[MalcolmXerox militant black man]] comes in and declares that he hates the room because it’s white, and the protagonist must be racist for wanting to be in a pure white room. When the protagonist says he doesn’t even want to be in there the black man tells him to just leave through the door, to which the protagonist yells that he can’t “Because that’s ''your'' door!”. The black man responds “You make me sick” and walks out.

* In ''Film/TheCube'', the protagonist is trapped in a white labelled room, with various weirdos coming in, saying or doing something to him and leaving again, each time telling him that he can’t leave through the door they came in through because it’s “their door”. Midway through the film, when he’s [[SanitySlippage starting to lose it]], a [[MalcolmXerox militant black man]] comes in and declares that he hates the room because it’s white, and the protagonist must be racist for wanting to be in a pure white room. When the protagonist says he doesn’t even want to be in there the black man tells him to just leave through the door, to which the protagonist yells that he can’t “Because that’s ''your'' door!”. The black man responds “You make me sick” and walks out.

[[TheStinger You know]] this trope [[SelfDemonstratingArticle is actually pretty racist if you think about it...]]

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' had Music/RKelly get off from going to prison despite the galactic-sized, completely convincing, and absolute evidence that he did what he was on trial for, due to his lawyer claiming that it was all just a big racist conspiracy to get a black man unfairly thrown in jail.

This trope occurs when a character frequently perceives racism, sexism, and/or other forms of prejudice where there is none. Usually the character is a member of the group which is supposedly being discriminated against, but a non-member exhibiting PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad works just as well. Even better if the ''actual'' group members [[OpinionOverride are aware that they are not actually being discriminated against]].

** In the episode "The Shower Head", Jerry's Uncle Leo calls the cook at Monk's an anti-Semite when his hamburger comes out slightly more well-done than he ordered. Later, when Jerry goes on ''The Tonight Show'', he says that Uncle Leo blames everything that inconveniences him on anti-Semitism, including one time when he called a ''[[InsaneTrollLogic rabbi]]'' an anti-Semite. [[spoiler:Uncle Leo was watching this episode of ''The Tonight Show'' with his girlfriend. When she laughed at Jerry's bit, he accused her of being an anti-Semite and broke up with her.]]

** Parodied in "The Yada-Yada-Yada," on two different levels: for one thing, Jerry suspects that dentist Tim Whatley converted to Judaism [[NWordPrivileges specifically so that he could tell Jewish jokes without causing offense]], and this offends him immensely... as a comedian, not as a Jew. However, when Jerry makes one joke about dentists, he gets labeled an "anti-Dentite", and is all but ostracized for it.

* Cracked has an article about [[https://web.archive.org/web/20161019233331/http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/3-racist-incidents-that-werent-actually-racist/ things that were supposedly racist incidents that actually weren't]]. The examples include people mistaking the word "niggardly", which means something like miserly, for the infamous racial slur. Another was a case of somebody thinking that something described as a black hole meant that it was a hole full of black people. Another was where the a city renamed its yellow public transportation line as the gold line because people claimed the name racist.

'''Vivaldi''': (''[[StopBeingStereotypical Begrudgingly]]'') Aye, I play.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', the [[DeveloperRoom Cafe of Broken Dreams]] has the first game's cut "black male" player model blame his removal on racism. "I'm black. You figure it out." It also has the cut "red-haired female" player model who claims the reason for her removal is discrimination from the game's all-male creators; she further claims that her black-haired rival [[CastingCouch slept with]] [[ReallyGetsAround nearly every one of the original game's makers]] to get the part.

* In {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}, Kankri Vantas spouts WallOfText monologues that are the epitome of the Everything Is [[FantasticRacism Alien-Racist]] [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative variant]] and is ever-ready to take offense on someone else's behalf whether they want it or not. In contrast, he is completely unaware of sexism and does not seem to notice his own misogynist attitudes even when they are pointed out.

[[TheStinger You know]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle this trope this trope is actually pretty racist if you think about it...]]

* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' got [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=349 a schoolgirl with proper understanding of the Political Correctness who accuses a boy of being racist for not liking chocolate pudding]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when the votey revealed the boy in question states he only likes "ethnically pure" vanilla pudding.]]

* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' got [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=349 a schoolgirl with proper understanding of the Political Correctness]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when the votey revealed the boy in question states he only likes "ethnically pure" vanilla pudding.]]

* In {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}, Kankri Vantas is the epitome of the Everything-Is-[[FantasticRacism Alien-Racist]] [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative variant]] of this trope.